Yelena Trofimenko | |
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 Yelena Trofimenko, 2011 | |
| Born | Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko 20 March 1964 Minsk, USSR |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1986-present |
| Spouse | Leonid Tereshko (1961-present) |
Yelena Nicolaevna Trofimenko (born March 20, 1964) is a Belarusian film director, producer, screenwriter, author, actress and poet.
Trofimenko was born on 20 March 1964 in Minsk, Belarus. In 1996, she became a director at the Belarusfilm studio. In 1998, her first full-length film Falling Upward , was released.
In 1996, Trofimenko became a member of the Belarusian Union of Cinematographers and, in 1998, a member of board of directors. She is a founder, originator and artistic director of the creative studio Youth Studio XXI (Belarusfilm, 2002). [1] Festival of one film was created at this studio. [2]
In 2012, Trofimenko created a collection of poems and reproductions, The Book. [3]
| Year | Title | Genre | Role | Prize and rewards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Memory and Conscience | Documentary | Director, screenwriter | |
| 1989 | Life | Video-novel | Director, screenwriter, actress | |
| 1991 | Birds are Still Singing... | Coursework | Director, screenwriter | Movie participated in Women's International Film and Arts festival, Germany, 1992 |
| 1992 | Hell is... | Coursework (adaptation of the play No Exit, sometime known as Behind closed doors by Jean-Paul Sartre | Director, screenwriter | |
| 1993 | The Judgment | Final graduation work (by Franz Kafka) | Director, screenwriter, actress | The movie has participated in Youth Festival in Kiev, Ukraine, 1994. |
| 1994 | Rendezvous | Final work, documentary, FEMIS | Director | |
| 1995–1996 | The Box Man | Five authors' television programs, talk-show hostess | Producer, director, presenter | |
| 1996 | Help | Documentary | Director, producer, screenwriter | |
| 1997 | Svetlana | Documentary | Director | |
| 1998 | Falling Upward | play movie | director, producer, screenwriter | Jury diploma – "For debut and artistic quest in genre of modern fairytale movie making" Prize of Belarusian foundation of culture development – "For ingenuity of director’s vision" in Minsk, Belarus, 1999 Women’s International Film and Arts festival 1999; diploma – "For successful combination of a fantasy world with reality, for efficacious employment of computer graphics in movie making" – with regards to the author to continue this experiment XXIX Festival, Lagov, Poland, 1999 Participated in the II All-Russia Festival of Visual Arts "Eaglet" in Tuapse, Russia, 1998 Participated in the International Film Festival in Cottbus, Germany, 1998. |
| 2000 | Eclectic-show | Mega-clip | Director, screenwriter | |
| 2004 | The fear | Short | Director | "Golden Knight" prize in the category - shorties MCC "Golden Knight" (in the anthology "The territory of the resistance") |
| 2005 | Dreams of Eli | Documentary | Director of the filming reconstructions |
| Year | Title | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Testament Rodin | Author, director, actress | Student performance on Auguste Rodin |
| 1991 | The Good Soldier Švejk | Author, director, actress | Student performance on Jaroslav Hašek |
| 1991 | The Box Man | Author, director, actress | Student performance on Kōbō Abe |
| 1992 | Leaf Litter | Author, director, actress | Student performance on Vasily Rozanov |
| 1992 | Demons | Author, director, actress | Student performance on Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 1993 | Chairs | Author, director, actress | Diploma performance on Eugène Ionesco |
| 2004 | Reading Kharms | Author, director | Performance on D. Harms in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov) |
| 2004 | Bald Singer | Author, director | Performance of Eugène Ionesco in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov) Prize at the XI Festival of Francophone Theatre in Minsk, 2004 |
| 2005 | Against AIDS | Author, director | Performance in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov) |
| 2006 | The Human Voice | Author, director | Performance in student theater (ISEU. Sakharov), written by Jean Cocteau |
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